Back before Mayor Mike McGinn squashed the SPD's drone program in response to public outcry, the SPD applied for—and was granted—an FAA waiver to practice flying its two drones... in Magnuson and Discovery Parks.

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Did the SPD ask the Parks Department's permission before (or after) if got the FAA's permission to treat two Seattle Parks as "training airspace" for its drones?

All of which is to say: It seems a little unfair that the public should be prohibited from flying drones in Seattle Parks unless an "emerging public desire" to fly them can be proved, while the SPD can just take its right to fly drones in our public parks for granted.